+(Intro) We heard yesterday in the gospel of Jesus saying, “when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” This morning St Paul speaks of Abraham and how his faith was accredited to him as righteousness. Let us ponder a moment of how we may fall short in our own call to faith.
(After the gospel) Jesus tells us that though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist in possessions. In our world today with its growing divide between the rich and poor, these words are all the more relevant.
What does Jesus mean when he says it is foolish to store up treasure for oneself and fail to be rich in what matters to God? St Paul helps us with this when he says in his second letter to the Corinthians that we are to “be ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships ..by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, ..in unfeigned love, in truthful speech, in the power of God.” (2Cor 6:5-7)
The Christ we receive in this Eucharist, is the Christ life we are to live through the whole of our life on earth. For to let him live in and through us is to be truly “rich in what matters to God.”
Rom 4:20-25; Luke 12:13-21